Who carries spotting scope stands?

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Looking for a decent stand that can be easily used in the prone for Service Rifle matches. The kind that have the two legs that form a wide V shape when deployed. I see lots of them at the matches but I have no idea who the different manufacturers are or where to buy them.

Also looking for a decent quality, yet relatively inexpensive spotting scope. Lets use the good ol' 20x Bushnell Spacemaster as a benchmark. What do you guys recommend?
 
Leg said:
Looking for a decent stand that can be easily used in the prone for Service Rifle matches. The kind that have the two legs that form a wide V shape when deployed. I see lots of them at the matches but I have no idea who the different manufacturers are or where to buy them.

Also looking for a decent quality, yet relatively inexpensive spotting scope. Lets use the good ol' 20x Bushnell Spacemaster as a benchmark. What do you guys recommend?
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Most of the ones we see are the Freeland Bipod. Our team ordered a bunch from Centre the Group, they are located somewhere in southern Ontario. They have a web site at:

w ww.centerthegroup.com
 
Hey! I know that guy. I was in army cadets with his son Dave, and Paul used to coach the shooting team for awhile.

ETA: So does anyone have any recommendations for a reasonably priced spotting scope? I was looking at the Nikon Sequoia 15-45x80mm model. Any others that I should consider in the around $500 or less?
 
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Leg said:
Hey! I know that guy. I was in army cadets with his son Dave, and Paul used to coach the shooting team for awhile.

ETA: So does anyone have any recommendations for a reasonably priced spotting scope? I was looking at the Nikon Sequoia 15-45x80mm model. Any others that I should consider in the around $500 or less?
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The Nikon Sky and Earth,, either the 60mm or the 80mm. Our team went with the 60mm and they are fine. Not waterproof though. We got them for just under $400 I think.

The MARLANT team had the new Leupold Wind River Sequoia 60mm, and I had a chance to use one for a bit. It was quite nice. These are waterproof and are avail with a long eye relief eyepiece and are about $400.00 as well.

45 degree angled are the ones to go with.

My next scope will probably be the Leupold.
 
I have a Bushnell Sentry spotting scope with the replaceable eyepieces. I chose the Bushnell Shooter's Tripod because it sits on tripod feet, not on legs across the ground. Works for me.

The Freeland stand is a perfect stand for use on flat floors, but not in my opinion on grassy or rougher surfaces. There is a company in Gatineau that sells lots of targets, which are called 'cibles' in French, and they have Canada in their name. He was charging about $200 for the stand and one upright. The saddle and fine adjust was a bit more money.
 
Oops! I meant to type Leupold Sequoia, not Nikon. Saw them at CFSAC, obviously from one of the MARLANT guys. Figured if it was good enough for them.... Price seems pretty cheap from some of the US sources, especially for the 60mm, under $300.

The Ewing stand looks nice, but is a bit more money at $250. My only concern is that it's a tripod. Are the legs spread out far enough that they won't get in my way when I'm in the prone? I especially like the fact that the whole assembly is subdued.

The Bushnell Spacemaster with tripod is quite decent, but I don't find it very friendly to prone shooters. It's what I've been using up to this point, but the short eye relief of the issued Spacemaster (I wear glasses), combined with how far away I have to position the scope so it's not in the way, severely restricts my field of view, not to mention how much I have to disturb my shooting position every time I look through the scope.
 
The important scope things are waterproof, 45 degree eyepiece and extended eye releif. The last is very important if anyone wears glasses.

It only has to be 50mm. You are not shooting under very poor light. Power can be fixed. If you had a zoom it would spend most of its time on 20X anyway.
 
Leg said:
The Ewing stand looks nice, but is a bit more money at $250. My only concern is that it's a tripod. Are the legs spread out far enough that they won't get in my way when I'm in the prone?.
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That's what I like about the Freeland Bipod. In the prone you can have you left elbow way out and flat: just put in into the V of the bipod and then the scope is nice and close to your eye. Very little movement if any to look through if you have a 45 degree scope. Tripods don't quite cut it, unless you get one with long legs. I like to travel light.

Leg said:
I especially like the fact that the whole assembly is subdued.
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I end up spray painting it all anyway, once I get over the newness of it all.

Leg said:
, but the short eye relief of the issued Spacemaster (I wear glasses), combined with how far away I have to position the scope so it's not in the way, severely restricts my field of view, not to mention how much I have to disturb my shooting position every time I look through the scope.
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Been there. The Leupold has nice eye relief when set on the lower power which is where it would normally be kept.
 
A few guys use home-made ones at our silhouette matches. Get an old discer disc and weld a square tuby vertical post on and an angle-iron on that so you have a thin vertical piece. Then use a window mount. It's a bit bubba, but heavy enough that it shouldn't shake too badly in the wind.
 
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